UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22125, 1 December 1933, Page 7

UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF

MARRIED MEN’S CAMPS OBJECTION TO COMPULSION. (Pee United I’kesp Association.) THAMES, November 30. At a representative public meeting convened by the Thames Unemployed Association, over which the Mayor presided, a resolution was passed protesting strongly against any projected settlement of married men in camps. The meeting was emphatic that compulsion was against the moral and economic welfare of the people of the Dominion, and called upon the Government through the Unemployment Board to withdraw the compulsory transfer of married men into camps in any part of the country. LOCAL ACTIVITIES ALLOCATION OF WORK. The following groups will report for work under the D.C.C. Reserves Department at 8 o’clock this morning:— 604, at Opoho football ground. 702, at the stadium. GROUP TRANSFERRED Group 362, hitherto employed by the D.C.C. Works Department, is now transferred to the Education Department, and will report for work at the Caversham School at 8 a.m. on Monday, December 4, 1933. UNEMPLOYMENT LEVY Under the rules of the No.'s scheme any person who has not paid within one month of the due date any instalment of the unemployment levy, and is still in arrears with such instalment of the levy, is not qualified to be given relief. Consequently, any man whose November instalment of the unemployment levy is unpaid to-morrow will not be allowed to work under scheme No. 5 after that day until such instalment has been paid. No. 6 DISTRICT The monthly meeting of the No. 6 District Committee was held on Tuesday evening in Cameron Hall. As the premises the committee occupied as a dqpot are required for other use the depot is to be moved to Cameron Hall, next Anderson’s Bay tram terminus. It was decided to open one day per week in future —on Friday morning at 10 o’clock to 12—and the depot is to be closed from December 22 until January 12, 1934. CENTRAL MISSION The staff of the Central Mission urgently appeals for donations of foodstuffs, etc., for its Christmas activities. The children’s camps are due to commence in about three weeks’ time, and the staff is very anxious to commence making up the Christmas parcels for distribution. A grand concert is to be given by Miss Anita Winkel’s pupils in the Town Hall Concert Chamber on Wednesday next at 8 p.m.